I don't bake desserts very often; most nights we have fresh fruit as our after dinner treat. It's not that I don't want to make the sweets but if I bake them then we'll eat them and we really don't need the extra calories.  Last weekend was different, my parents visited so I got to cook dessert.  While I wanted to make a really sinful ultra-chocolaty dessert my mom wanted something fairly light and since we were going to be out most of the day something quick also seemed like a good idea.  Dorie Greenspan came to the rescue with her "Parisian Apple Tartlet" recipe in Baking: From my home to yours.  The recipe is essentially a piece of puff pastry dough with some chopped up apple topped with a bit of cut-up butter and brown sugar.  How easy can it get?  The result was amazing.  I made some with apple and some with pear.  Both were great.  I had planned on serving them with fresh whipped cream but they did not even need whipped cream - that's how good they were.  I bought two packages of the puff pastry and I can't wait until we have these again! So, thanks Mom for forcing me to make the fruit dessert since I've now found a really great, quick, easy and pretty dessert...

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